Re: Today's ISFDB weirdness

On 2024-05-30, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

ISFDB has a "disowned by its author" tag. The books thus tagged are:
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Astronauci by Stanislaw Lem

That was Lem's first novel.  I think it was the last ever book I
read in translation.  There was some nonsense on the first few pages
where I couldn't figure out if it was from a naive young Lem or
from a science-illiterate translator--an issue that has been plaguing
the genre, because translators tend to come from a humanities
background.

I don't think the novel was THAT bad, and it already had the theme
of aliens being too alien for our understanding that Lem would
return to again and again, but yes, it wasn't up to the level of
Lem's later output.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de